(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Yurchenko, leader of pogrom hands, will be executed for murdering Jews during the civil war in Soviet Russia.
At his trial in Zhitomir, which ended yesterday, the death sentence was imposed upon him.
For several years during the civil war he terrorized the entire district and was responsible for many massacres of Jews in that region.
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